What ingredients make up the recipe for dreams?

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The discussion revolves around the ingredients for crafting dreams, emphasizing concepts like free association, surreal metaphor, and emotional plasticity. Participants share their personal elements that contribute to dream experiences, such as daydreaming, lucidity, and a disregard for critics. The conversation also touches on the practical aspects of lucid dreaming, with one participant recounting their attempts to achieve flight in dreams, highlighting the challenges faced, such as being pulled back to reality. The context of the discussion is set within a biology forum, suggesting an interest in the psychological and biological underpinnings of dreaming.
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My ingredients to the recipe of dreams are...

1. Free association

2. Surreal metaphor

3. Emotional plasticity

...not to mention the chicks !

Et tu?
 
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The dreams that stuff is made of:

1. wanton daydreaming
2. regular lucidity
3. An undying carelessness towards critics

... not to mention several book shelves of cheesy paperbacks.


Wait.. what?
 
There was an article about lucid dreaming in Omni Magazine. I got so I was able to fly around mostly just over the tops of trees. Only got it to work maybe a couple of times. Takes a lot of effort.
 
People were always able to grab my leg while I was flying (Australian crawl). I need others to keep me grounded?

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